Soy
Sauce And Butter Premium Potato Chips

Yamayoshi

Taste:
2

Texture:
4

Novelty:
2.5

All
scores out of 5

Both
of these flavours seem to make sense as a potato chip flavour. I've
had chips in the past with a butter flavour, but never soy sauce.
I can't see why soy sauce wouldn't work, and I know butter does work.
The strange thing is, these chips taste weird.

One of the key things that
make these chips a little strange might be the combination of these
two flavours. Only recently have I ever had these two flavours together
outside of the candy world. It was in a bowl of ramen that was buttered
corn flavoured. In the case of the ramen the flavour combination worked
really well. The reason why I don't think it works with these chips
is the imbalance of the two flavours. The minute you open up the bag
you're immediately assaulted with a butter flavour.

It's a really strong butter
flavour, and there's almost no sign of the soy sauce at all. It could
be that the soy sauce is providing the saltiness of these chips, but
you would get the same effect if you used a salted butter. The butter
is the star of this show, and it doesn't totally work. I think another
thing that might have made the ramen work but not these chips is the
addition of other flavours, such as pork and assorted vegetable (most
notably corn). The plain potato flavour is a great canvas for flavours,
however it doesn't really add that much to the chip itself. You need
to balance the flavours you use on a potato chip for it to work, unless
it's just salt and oil where the potato can shine on its own. Add
just about any other flavour and there might be a balance, butter
on its own does not work.